Clojurians Log v2

and I have nothing to lose and therefore nothing to fear

simple_smile

And that is no exageration - I literally have nothing to lose that hasn't already been lost

bummer

once you've lost it all - more than once - you are never the same

not a bummer - I am free

ah

me too

sweet

travel light through life

I've had nothing but the clothes on my back - more than once

Right now I have little more than that.

and that's about all I want

living in a 3 room apt. just breaking even. no heat most of the day.

I'm couch-surfing and grateful to not be on the streets.

I've also died twice. First time was melanoma. Told 20 years ago I had a significantly less than 5% chance of living 5 years.

2 years on the streets.

oh my!

These days drs tell me they have never seen a survivor who had melanoma spread to the lymph nodes.

about 6 months was in a tent - which was a luxury

everything is relative.

yes

we are survivors

Today we got a portable washing machine. Rupali has been washing our cloths by hand for the last year.

I would get new clothes and throw the old ones away if nobody else wanted them

newly donated

never did laundry the whole time I was on the streets

never had it that tough

but facing death was life changing too

it did me a world of good

simple_smile

Learn what is important

definitely

I decided I was living a life that was not going anywhere and that I wanted to contribute something technical.

being humbled is interesting

instead of committing suicide I thought I'd try one last time to create a reality that embraced me

since I failed in my suicide attempt

sounds good, if challenging

so far so good

and so the man does what he feels like

whatever, I do what I want...

or is it you do, yes, what you want.

;cartman:

the former means no dicipline

we need south park emoji

lisp style, like all emoji. (sp)

?

(smile)

oh, I see

:keyword-emoji

at least on skype, the emoji are represented by a word in paren

did not know that

So, is cljs a good starting point?

sorry, I mean cljc

being platform nutral

neutral

yes

Would you want a language that is platform agnostic or one that embraces the underlying platform?

reader conditionals

not sure

That's a good first question.

lots of benefits to host interop

yeah. and that is the UGLIEST part of clj.

Done quite badly.

I would lead by playing Socrates herding cats

ask a lot of questions and let the experts decde by consensus

I wouldn't write any of the code

other than writing in the language so I could eat the dogfood

nom nom nom

😄

how about square brackets instead of parens

I'll call you bill gates then. Intentionally incompatible

Though MS seems to have changed its spots of late.

http://clochure.org/

I just dread what MS is going to be doing in the near future once windows 8 is completely dead.

--let loose the gates of advertising.

I really think windows 10 is an advertising platform more than anything else.

Pay to turn the ads off!

lol

AdBlock in Chrome is awesome

and now there is someone working on a new browser that is doing ad replacement

--ex ceo of firefox

OK, one advantage of [ over ( --no shift key, so you can type more easily.

But is ]]]]] as readable as )))))?

sure

its a trivial thing that makes it easier to break with the past and make a fresh start

now using clojure 1.8.0

phantomjs for unit testing?